Israeli Tactical School (ITS) Executive protection training built on Shin Bet doctrine — the same system that guards heads of state, diplomats, and covert intelligence officers. Founded in 2011 by Tomer Israeli — Shin Bet (ISA) certified Chief Security Officer and EP Special Agents Team Leader, rank of Captain. Tomer is one of the most experienced EP instructors in the industry — twenty years on protective details across Latin America, Asia, the Persian Gulf, and the United States. His record: two Latin American heads of state, royal family members in Asia and the Gulf, church leaders with millions of followers, Fortune 500 executives, and celebrities. He also trains the government units and private firms that protect them. The Shin Bet Protection Doctrine Three efforts. In order: 1. Detect and Deny. Every attack needs an opening — call it “the ball.” Counter-surveillance, advance work, route analysis, and thinking like the attacker is how we deny him that opening. Overt assets are decoy and misdirection. Covert assets move the principal and run counter-surveillance. No ball, no score. 2. Prevent. When we spot a credible threat, we eliminate it before it acts. Deception, routine variation, and protective intelligence keep the attacker a step or two behind — not knowing what he doesn’t know. 3. Respond. When the first two layers fail, we open with violence. Close distance. Move fast, hit hard. Strict rules of engagement: only the threat, never bystanders. Every response follows the advance work plan — pre-cleared evac routes, safe havens, medical and command — never improvised. The principal moves out of the kill zone. Deny the Ball Prevention wins the fight without the fight. •Sun Tzu: win without fighting The first two efforts win most of the fight. We use the same toolkit Shin Bet uses: counter-surveillance, anti-tracking, deception planning, overt-covert layering, profiling, de-escalation, reading people. Response Standards Unlike other schools, we don’t hope for the best. We expect the worst, always. We plan as if today is the day it happens to us. That’s the Shin Bet mindset. We train at tier-one level in both prevention and combat. Most EP schools center their curriculum on countless classroom hours and PowerPoint (death by PowerPoint). Minimal planning for worst-case scenarios. Their focus is customer service — a lot of it. Paparazzi as the threat model. Hope as the strategy. Reactive posture, predictable routes, the principal calling the shots. Block the paparazzi — and hope the bullets don’t come. ITS trains for the actual threat. 100% high-risk protection. If a client chooses to compromise — fewer agents, lighter cover, looser routine — they know exactly what they’re trading away. We don’t sell concierge service dressed up as security. Response gets trained to SWAT-operator and tier-one standards. We still treat it as a fallback. Prevention is the foundation. ITS Makes You More Employable After ITS, you’re more employable than after any other program. Principals want operators who can actually protect them — not certificate-holders. Real-world skills give you the knowledge, the edge, and the judgment to make the right call when it matters. The training raises your market value as a working EP agent — not as a doorman watching an empty house from the garage. How We Train We deny the ball. We train like we fight. No classroom time — 100% hands-on. You don’t learn to kill a tiger in the jungle by watching National Geographic. What the Market Values You’re only as good as your last training. We value real-world skill, not the color of your belt. A diploma can’t stop bullets. The market values operators who are in shape and current. So we built the program to keep you that way: every ITS student returns to any course at 50% off. Graduates of our instructor program train with us for life, free. We invest in you during the course and after it. Your success is ours. Live-Fire Reality Live-fire only. Range and shoot house setups built as markets, restaurants, hotels, public events, parties, in and out of vehicles, on foot through busy streets. Students don’t just learn to shoot or fight hand-to-hand. They train to tier-one hostage rescue and federal air marshal standards.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​